1,200,000 Shares KITE REALTY GROUP TRUST Shares of Beneficial Interest (Liquidation Preference $25 Per Share) UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • March 9th, 2012 • Kite Realty Group Trust • Real estate investment trusts • New York
Kite Realty Group Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Company”), and Kite Realty Group, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, the sole general partner of which is the Company (the “Operating Partnership”), each wishes to confirm as follows its agreement with the Underwriters named in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Underwriters,” which term shall also include any underwriter substituted as hereinafter provided in Section 9 of this Agreement) for whom Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, is acting as the representative (the “Representative”), with respect to the sale by the Company and the purchase by the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly (the “Offering”), of an aggregate of 1,200,000 shares (the “Firm Shares”) of the Company’s 8.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares of Beneficial Interest, par value $0.01 per share (the “Preferred Shares”). In addition, the Company proposes to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 180,
